Example sentences of "it [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 2 | There 's always talk like this , Anne , but it 's usually politicians just trying it on for some advantage . |
| 3 | I keep it on for several days . ’ |
| 4 | Charge , you 've turned it on for ten hours , how much will I charge you ? |
| 5 | It 's alright for ha put it on for half hour maybe , you know , but you forget it |
| 6 | The awesomely powerful heating and ventilation system makes another jet-like roar , but it works so well that you only need it on for short bursts . |
| 7 | So well we could go out there anyway to see whether they 've got any er you see if they carried it on for another month |
| 8 | The fact is that for most children maths has been taught badly or rather they have learnt it badly for one reason or another , so there is a need for , for an improvement or a change , so the idea that if children can understand something this will help them to remember it or to make it more real to them , this does seem to be a shift over the last generation . |
| 9 | Practise it slowly for maximum benefit and to safeguard your back . |
| 10 | To have it in er Daily Post , The Post is the morning one The Echo 's the evening to have it in for one day in The Post and The Echo , how much ? |
| 11 | The controller mistakenly put it in for one hour ( we had n't crossed our seven as they do in French ) , which caused the authorities to send out a search-and-rescue helicopter for us . |
| 12 | Claudia stared at him blankly , unable to take it in for several minutes , and when she did she cried out and launched herself at him , her hands raised . |
| 13 | The public is being asked to believe that an ill-conceived government has it in for these companies . |
| 14 | I take it in for further research . |
| 15 | " Write it down for that coach out front . " |
| 16 | We also wrote it especially for this chapter . |
| 17 | In 1978 the act was amended to make the earliest mandatory retirement age 70 and to eliminate it entirely for federal employees . |
| 18 | It 's not worth it just for one week is it ? |
| 19 | Were it not for these things there would not be the possibility of the time-of-day language . |
| 20 | Were it not for this fact of nature we would n't have our time-of-day language . |
| 21 | Were it not for human judgement and conscience being clouded by such a comfortable belief , and fears of retribution being removed by the further endowment of the ‘ god ’ with a power to forgive transgressions , many of the unwise human acts which lead on to unhappiness , would never have been undertaken . |
| 22 | He has several times got himself into a position of strength in his battle with parliament , and bartered it away for short-term gains . |
| 23 | Pa bought it at Faversham market where the man gave it away for ten pounds . |
| 24 | In Pearce [ 1973 ] Crim LR 321 ( CA ) , the accused was guilty when he put a boat onto a trailer and drove it away for later use . |
| 25 | The price is so basic that , if the parties have expressly left it over for later agreement , the court may well conclude that the parties did not intend to make and have not made , a contract . |
| 26 | It is necessary to have a lot of different stages , so that you 're coming to it fresh each time , and I used to find when I was younger that that would mean putting it aside for several days . |
| 27 | er er I do n't know why I was thinking about it yesterday for some reason , oh probably because I got erm the official invite to the er thing on Friday . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , some 300 potato farmers dumped 3,000 tons of potatoes on roads to the north western town of Pontivy , cutting it off for several hours . |
| 29 | Because you will know in advance when you need the cash , you can use a 90-day-notice account or even tie it up for five years for a better return . |
| 30 | If you have stress incontinence this exercise will help if you do it regularly and keep it up for several months : |